I've been watching football all day and was hoping to at least pass the time with a juicy viqueens loss but the browns are far worse than I could have imagined....Brady Quinn looked like bad Rex out there

On a positive note, before I slit my wrists. Wale is playing like Reggie F-ing White. He's killing them and keeping Rodgers out of rythm. Thank Christ for his effort so far. Second half is our time, BEAR THE FUCK DOWN.

Both defenses look impressive as hell. J-cut's problem is that he's pressing like crazy and other than Knox, none of the receivers are doing a damn bit to get separation. He needs to hurry up learning the playbook so he can get more snaps.
Bennett has looked completely lost. Dez is in a fog. Hester had a nifty catch early but has disappeared.
And where is the goddamn rushing attack? some off left guard stuff would be nice, especially with harris playing peekaboo.
The D (especially WALE!!!) is looking NICE.

hail mary pass and they almost screwed that up. This is not the way to start. Even if this was a team other than GB, i think they would still be playing like this. A lot of confidence in the personel does not mean they will produce in the field. Cutler and the recievers look like that have never played together. This will be a long season if the game doesn't change.

Ghost, I'm with you, and calming down more and more by the minute. Tough environment, a city's worth of pressure, and what must feel like the weight of the world on 6's shoulders. The good news is he won't have a half that bad for the rest of the season. To only be down 8 at this point is a win in my book. The defense is playing extremely well, and I hope the ding on Pisa is minor. This offense is hard to watch, though, and not what I've been waiting for since April 2nd. Let's see where we are after the 3rd quarter. Caleb Hanie isn't the answer, not now or really at all this season.

And, for the record, I TOLD YOU KNOX WAS THE STEAL IN THE DRAFT. That kid has it all, and if RT doesn't incorporate him into the offense starting at halftime of this game, he should be fired. Knox is the TRUTH!!

This second half will tell a lot about the future of Jay Cutler. I know it is only one game but it will be important how he responds to adversity in this game. It couldn't have been much of a first worse half for him. Turner needs to call some plays to counteract the pressure and do some in game adjustments.

i'm not too concerned with the picks, but the recievers not finishing routes, 7 injuries and a loss to a team that we defensively handled well all game is too much. PISA and URLACHER hurt? Come on Vash.

What happened too the team that we saw in the preseason? Jay talks about the pressure and he can handle it. bull shit this was a bad display of the staff misjudging the talent ont this team. I hope that the whole team watces this video for the whole week.. Watch all of the missed tackles and missed oppurtunities. Defense line kept the bears in this game. Steeler come to town next week and if they playh like this we will be 0-3 before our by. I'm very sad for waiting all this time for this shit. Accountablity!

Alright, horrible game offensively, but the defense is stout disregarding that last play. Vash is done, next week we'll see Peanut and Bowman for sure. Marinelli has our guys getting pressure again, and that was a huge question mark coming into tonight. I'm chalking tonight up to nerves and a lack of understanding and communication between Cutler and his receivers. I figure we beat this team at Soldier Field, so we split the series. Cutler will come out next week with a gigantic chip on his shoulder. I think he'll play mad all season, and that's a good thing. Side note, Tony Dungy can gargle my nuts. I don't have any clue why everybody hails this guy as the moral compass of the NFL. If you ask me, he let his son down. Nuff said. I'm tired of hearing him talk. Cutler will bounce back from this, and it's a good lesson to have. I'm done, taking off my 54 jersey and packing it in.

And another thing...down 2 pts, in a game that very easily could have been decided by a field goal, why the hell did we not go for 2 on the TD to Hester? If you make it, score is tied, if you don't, you're down 2 instead of 1.
What frigging chart was Lovie looking at that explained that one?

Well, they are who we thought they were...good and bad.
The D-line is VASTLY improved over last year. Pressured and hit Rodgers all night with just a 4-man rush. Wale was a beast.
Vasher is god-awful.One open-field tackle does not excuse the complete abuse he took all night. Rodgers completion percentage against anyone else in coverage was horrid. Against Vash, he lit it up. When the opposing QB is going after you instead of the guy who sat out all preseason recovering from back surgery, here's your sign: you suck balls.
All of the wide receivers are extremely young (some of them mentally, some physically). I cannot fathom why the Duke lined up a yard past the LOS. is he blind in his right eye?
The O-line is not great at run-blocking, despite the Gints preseason game. We'll see what they're made of against Pittsburgh...at least they're playing the two 3-4 teams two weeks in a row.
McKie dropping a swing pass? Go figure.
God, that idiotic direct snap; it's still 12 frigging men on the field if you f-cking snap it to the punter. The major problem is: you cannot wait for the guy to run all the way to the nacho stand before you snap it, Patrick.
Cutler isn't this bad - I'll tell myself that for at least another week.

I'm with you Ghost. This is a great lesson learned tonight. But to be in a game where your Franchise QB throws 3 pics and lead with less than 2 min left, that tells me something. I think next week we'll open some eyes, depending on how serious the injuries are to Pisa and 54.

guys, cutler had a solid second half and we had some good drives and once they work out the kinks we will be just fine. The running game looked lackluster though. Defensive pressure looked good on Rogers. Concerned about injuries though. Bennett impressed me too. Knox is going to be good but they all have alot to learn.

Boy, did the Packers offense just stink up the field tonite, or what? What the hell else do we have to do to help these morons win a football game? Jcut did his best to make it look like our offense was incapable of playing in a fucking PeeWee league, and the Packers sould still only muster 21 points!!!! I'm not impressed.

Doesn't really matter how the game starts...matters how it ends. Crosby missed a FB and ARod was out of sync. If he can be terrible and still win a game, I'm cool with that. Great to see our defense wreaking havoc on Cutler. Don't pull a Favre fan and blame every interception on the receiver. The D forced him into bad decisions all day.

Jim Miller - god rest his broken down body - hates Cutler every day of the week and was, to steal a phrase, gargling Favre's nuts all off-season. Pardon me if I don't give a rats ass what Mills has to say about Cutler tonight. I'll have to listen to it on NFL Network all day tomorrow.

FQD1911 goes down in blog history for the "nut gargling" line. It's his, and with his permission I use it at every chance I get. I got no time for arm-chair analysts. We do enough of that ourselves. I still see us at 6-2 by week 9, and as an 11 win team at the end of the season. All 53 guys on the roster are taking this one hard, and that's the kind of team we need moving forward. I definitely should NOT have watched 300 after the game. Too much rage flowing right now.

Lovie Smith sucks. I'm so sick of watching him get out coached I could just gag right now.
Play calling, terrible again. Turner Blows. What more to say?
O-Line: old and a disaster Frank O must go...
This game was gift wrapped to GB. Two ints in fg range, a third one that gave them 1st and goal from the 1. And of course the fake punt set up another field goal. They gave up 10 legit points...

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That sucked my asshole with a giant straw from Mcdonalds. Vash is a fucking thief. He pocketed millions and gave us a shit product in return. DEMOTE HIS ASS TONIGHT!

Thoughts on tonight:
1.I hate the piss and puke
2. Defese shut down the media darling and "future league MVP" A-Rod
3. Vash is a liability
4. Cutler isnt afraid to mix it up and challenge not only the D but our own guys as well. I like it despite tonights performance

And all you bitches out there crying fowl, calling him Rex or Kyle or Burris.......HAVE SOME FUCKING FAITH WILL YA??????????

What a fucked up sunday. I lost in both my fantasy leagues, lost my own football pool, the Bears lost, and my niece soilled red fucking punch on my white $150 Cutler jersey! Mother fuck me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone needs to chill out. Thank god Ghost and a few others were around to be a voice of reason. I just read the Haugh and Morrissey articles and wow are those guys brutal! They want JC out, regret ever trading for him. They are a perfect representation of what the media is these days: 'FUUUCCKKK!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!' - I'm so sick of this kinda shit.

By my estimation, we fared much better than last time up there. We blew it but had a chance to win despite Cutty's pix(which I have mixed feelings on...)

Cutty had a bad game at any measure. But so did our O-Line, so did Nate(WTF-where was Bowman?!!), and not much running ever happened(see:O-Line).

I'll cut to the chase: Everyone Chill TF out. We just need to win one of these 1st 2 and we already came close. I say we're 1-1 after this weekend. brrrssss.

And now I'm drinkin H20, alone on the west coast on dabearsblog. Jeff! Haven't heard from you in hours and beginning to worry.

Ladies and Gents,(besides losing) I loved this game tonight, maybe I was just that thirsty. The Bears fought like beasts and now several are left licking their wounds like Url whose to undergo wrist surg tonight and will be out a few weeks. Pisa may be lost. But I think they'll fuck the pack up at Soldier field in 3 months.

What I mean is that I'm still very excited for this season and can't wait for next week! They just gotta make it 1-1! brrrssss.

Well this post is likely a waste because I'm sure El Hefe is preparing a missive as we speak - and I do believe he's going to be reacting more like those on the positive side than on the negatives - because there were a lot of positives out there.

The first is macro - it was obvious from that game that we belonged out there, despite people picking either the Vikings (most) or the Packers (the rest) to win the division, I thought we outplayed them last night despite being in their raucous crib. And despite the opening night jitters of our new franchise QB.

Before the game started, I turned to my diehard fan son and said, remember, Cutler throws picks. I certainly didn't imagine he'd throw as many as he did, or look as rattled as he did the first half.

But the second half was MUCH more important than the first - he generally played great in the second half, played like the guy we thought we were getting - until the last drive. And I honestly had not much real hope that he would get it done in the last drive - that's fairy tale stuff, at least considering the obvious work-in-progress we're dealing with in terms of Cutler + inexperienced receivers + new line + no timeouts.

I thought everyone fought like dogs out there - was especially impressed with GB's ferocity on D - but I was equally impressed with our D! That team was supposed to be an offensive juggernaut - and we SHUT THEM DOWN. That was impressive, and the early returns on the coaching change to Marinelli + Lovie is extremely positive, boding well for the rest of the season - IF bodies hold up, and judging from last night's game, that's a big if.

The game last night didn't necessarily turn on Cutler's 4 interceptionts - it was a few single individual breakdowns. Mannelly's once-in-a-lifetime game-changing brain cramp - which we will never again see happen on the Bears in our lifetime - Vasher, obviously (and I give credit to most of you on here who noted how bad he's actually become, I was a holdout in believing in him, that's DONE) - change two plays there and it's a different outcome. Frank Omiyale getting schooled ALL GAME LONG. That was ugly, and disappointing. Maybe they go back to Beekman/Garza after that.

Of greater concern to me was how horrible our receivers were, I saw more drops in one game, SPREAD ALL AROUND, than I remember in any single game. Bennett fixed his deal, played much better in the second half. The tight ends were horrible, mostly Dez Clark. Never seen a worse game by him. Tight ends are supposed to be our strength, the good news is we can pull Dez and have TWO guys to go to. Johnny Knox is exciting, and I'm thrilled that he was out there making plays immediately.

One game, one loss that was in no way an assured win going in, next game's going to be tough but let's spend the week with Cutler continuing to get in sync with his receivers, especially in teaching them what to do when protection breaks down. Insert Vash's replacement. Get Briggs up and running at mike. Explain to Mannelly that he's an old horse, and could get taken out back and shot, no one would lose any sleep. Get Michael Gaines and Kellen Davis up and running.

Somebody better wake Matt Forte up and remind him that the season's begun. That's the first bad thing I ever said about him, but he did not look like the MF of last year, or of the preseason. Like he was running in molasses. I understand that the combo of Omi and Kreutz was allowing defenders right up in his grill, but it certainly was strange to see 25 come in there and represent an improvement. I remember no passes to Forte either.

LOVE the one step drop hitch plays, they worked every time, and in a big way. Didn't really have a big problem with Turner, Cutler was improvising much of the game anyway, way too skittish in the first half but he calmed down.

I know they are pissed at themselves for losing this one. Come out with the same fire next week and we'll be 1-1.

By the way, 1st and 5 playcalling sucked. We had 2nd and goal from the 2.5yard line and called a slow developing toss to Pace's side? a fucking toss? I have to believe that 2 more inside runs would get us 2.5 yards and a TD.